Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-07
WASHINGTON.
President Cleveland as Good as
Admits that Lamar viii be Placed
Upon the Supreme Bench.
What Native American Pioneers are
Suffering In Iowa at the Hands
Of Foreign Invaders.
No More Permits to HUT and Fish In the
Indian Territory 30 DO Issued to
Sportsmcn for a while.
LAMAR STILL IN FAVOR.

purse of general conversation reference
WAS made TO the appointment OF sue
cessor to Justice Woods.
az would like to ask you, Mr.. Presi-
dent" said his visitor bluntly, 'it you
a -e going to give that place to Secretary
LAMAR"
The President laughed good humecedly
and ssid: at seems TO be in the air.
Tn conditions appear 30 be somewhat
the same as they were before Lamar
came into the Cabinet. There were
number of applicants from the south.
Almost every section Lad its favorite
son for s place il my political
household. found, however, fhat their
second choice almost invariably was
Lamar, as l have said mis- appointment
seemed to be in the air. 1t is Just so in
the present case; e dozen different south
ern men are being pushed fer the vacant
iudgeship, aud l find, however, that the
real sentiment of the south is favorable
to Lamar. don't think it proper for me
| to say in advance what l shall! Go in the
matter, but certainly cannot be insen-
| sible to the influence"
ENGLISH LANDLORDS IN AMERICA.
| WASHINGTON, Oct / The General Land
ctiice is in receipt ot information that 6
British syndicate, which is said to hs7e
purchased large tract of land In Iowa
from the McGregor Eastern Railway
/ Company, is mercilessly evicting settlers,
the title to the land being in dispute IN
the stare courts 4 setter writes: "a
woman over sixty years of eye, Sick in
bed, has been taken by SIX men anC
carried out into driving storm
Delicate women have had their hands
tied with cords Till the flesh was bruised
and then dragged shrie king from theil
homes Children have been born prems
turely a. the sight of the eviCtors. Strong
mer have been run down 6y ruff an!
on horseback ard carried haHdcufet
from their little possessions. | might 81
on and multiply instances where sheriff
win writ CT q -CCMapt in one hand ant
8 British contract IL the other give thes
poor people the choice between tW
evils which tdey would take. Affidavit
Of the CrueltieS prSCticed are being col
lected, asys the writer, for use at Washing
ton next winter, end will be read in bot
houses of Congress. They are expecte
to create sensation, when the people
the east are brought fully to realize wht
native American pioneers are suffering :
the hands Of new invaders.
NO MORE PERMITS.
Special to the Gazette.
4 WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.-Secretsry Is
mar says the order issued by him to-da,
q refusing 10 issue further permits
sportsmen to visit the Indian Territol
i. wss necessary to stop the abuse OF Il
privilege. All during the psst SUNNI
the Department was flooded with apple
tions for permits tc hunt and fish IN Il
y Territory. The requests come fro
q every part of the country, from Elaine
California. Occasional requests were +
ceived from Great Britain. Recent
some OF the head men OF the SO, 900
= more Indians who reside in the Terrific
J applied 10 the Secretary to abolish I
system. They claimed that the hui
ers want only to slaughter, [
game which the Indians themselves ne
for food, snd that st The present rate
6 destruction not deer or besr will be Il
in the Territory st the end OF the ne
decade. More than this, they allege II
the white men debauch their women, q
in other w3ys exhibit their vicious tie
>. denotes, calculated to demorslize and I
grade their young men.
MORRISON AND OBERLY.
Another bit CT political gossip in C
onel William r. Morrison of the hi
state commerce commission y
1is shortly tender his resignation 8
ID that he will be succeeded
another Illinois man, no less per'
than John Oberly OF the civil service cl
MISSION. It has seversl times b.
stated that the interstate co
he MERGE commissioner is disss
fed with lis present duties,
that ne will contest for his old seat
Congress again yeEr hence. The 81
which now reaches here from Chicago
that the Colonel's prospects both fol
by denomination and re election ere SO fat
ing that he has d, cided to resign II
the commission end spend the interv
ing time quietly at home il Waterl
It is said ne may return
Washington for u few d
~, hut re will pro badly lie
>NA by the time Congress convenes. The
son given for the appointment OF Oh
IS Morrison's successor is desire on
part Of the President 10 give Mr.. OBJ
"a g something more lucrative than his pl
rho ent position as well as his previous TT
~ ing snd experience in the line OF du
'eA of an interstate commissioner.
AIN A CONSUL ON COTTON.
lew Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.-Consul HEv
writing 10 the State Department 4
Richenberg, Austrian Bohemis, refer
49, some length to subject OF CREST int
I'm TO the exporters Of raw cotton from
~A' United States. Dir. Hswes says tns
fsr the greatest importation. from
United States into his consular distri
:. - cotton; the exact amount will p-oo'
= aggregate %, 600 bales annually. Al
"a 60 per cent. of all the raw cotton I
ISL there is American, the rest Genes
% India. The India cotton, sltholsl
feri0r t. thst from America, IS preieI
simply becsuse OF The superior nal
in which il is packed. The bale:
reason Of this fact occupy only hslf
n. space of those from America, althe
containing about an equal numbe
the pounds The loose packing OF the A
tns lean product causes the bales to y
open, and as consequence more or
of the staple is lost. Consul Have
- conclusion, ssys: II the American
were compressed to nearly hsaf kheirl
emit size, and more strongly packeG
sure it would AFFECT fsvorably the ~
Gu. American cotton here end saseN
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